UseCases

On this page use cases of products of the syslinux family. It is mostly a collection of links. (Please add more)

SYSLINUX

• pxe-on-a-disk universal network boot floppy

ISOLINUX

• pxe-on-a-disk the universal network boot CDROM

PXELINUX

• The Debian installer supports netbooting. At a Debian archive you find a tarball that contains a working example.

• Unattended, A Windows deployment system.

COM 32

The syslinux family has also "COM 32"

mboot.c32 and XEN

Booting XEN is possible with the help of mboot.c32

DEFAULT xen

LABEL xen
  KERNEL mboot.c32
  APPEND xen-3.0.2-1-i386.gz dom0_mem=262144 --- vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-xen-686 console=tty0 root=/dev/hda1 ro --- initrd.img-2.6.16-2-xen-686

PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 0

Debian users should notice http://bugs.debian.org/391152 which says that mboot.c32 is missing in the package.